Pyre

Following on from their performance at our Ident Showcase for Schemata & Corsica Studios yesterday, Nivalis joins us with their track Pyre for WARE 2021. Out now.

Nivalis - Pyre

A tribute to Harpies Records' first compilation or just three DJs sharing the hope of better days in a collective and melancholic introspection.

HARPIES RECORDS 2021 everything's gonna be alright (28.01.22)

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Budapest's @Exiles-Electronics label are a port of call for anyone who enjoys scuttling around in the back corners of Bandcamp, digging out undocumented artists and providing them with a home for their releases. Their latest EP, 'brain fog' from non-binary Hungarian producer @asvanyviz2, does exactly that.

brain fog

asvanyviz2 - terminally online [Exiles]

@6314
It is time to let go of your fear and doubts. You must learn to embrace the darkness of your soul, for it is a light beacon of hope for humanity. Your soul wants to show itself in its truest form, strength, perseverance, courage and determination of spirit. In this lifetime your soul needs to cleanse and open its feelings for katharsis.

With the double compilation “Infinite Summer: Ekstase & Fantasi”, katharsis celebrates the return of raves and concerts to society after a long period of pandemic shutdown. A magical summer has passed filled with an incredible pallet of emotional material, ready to be expressed. Therefore, we encouraged a collection of artists we adore to channel their imagination of the greatest way to conclude an endless summer night into a piece of music.

This resulted in a grand assemblage of harmonious manifestations, naturally splitting into two divisions with opposing focuses. On the first part of the duology “Ekstase” coming out on September 20th, we are presented with fourteen tracks for the dancefloor in an array of different styles, ranging everywhere from energetic morning vibes on the junglish opener “Origin, Gate's Dawn” by Yem Gel to hardcore sensations on Mang’s trap-infused roller “Based Halo”.

Infinite Summer: Ekstase

Diurnal Arc

bela - Diurnal Arc

Seraphim w/ Ronce - 16/11/2022

Radical Sounds Latin America - Bungalovv @ Refuge

Deconstructed World: AHMED ALAA w/ B E N N - 06/02/2023

Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

'Soft and Black'
Modular synthesizer & voice – KIM KHAN


In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

TRANCE BAND - Soft and Black

NO MERCY

My first attempts to adapt an orthodox choir within this genre.
A dark ritual of metal and industrial trap — sacred voices meeting distorted machinery.
Experimental, cinematic, and spiritual in tone.

sistra

keep it together @ all costs..
produced by @dancinginrainfall

tightenin my nerves up, stressin me surplus
leakin bloody rust, dey like "les why yu so nuts?"
feelin fucked 24/7, cranked [e]leven
nine2 five? i'll get it out wit ninety seven, get the message.
many to expel out down from hell nd yu keep testin me
harsh air searin thru my lungs, i barely feel2 breathe
faux creepin round nd drown in light das seepin round me
give no fuck bout how yu soundin
kill the ego, where yo groundin @?
so gone . that shit dead. whole self image a .44 to ya head.
now yu liking damage? yu better come fo da neck.
know yu pissed off cuz yo father is AVX @avexacortexa
keep runnin mouth nd i'll get yu so nerve wrenched
lesion tech, hex code i inject wit my blade fo yo soul
yu a wreck, aim at neck, cuz yo movement gettin old
[me]dusa's only one snake that looked back nd turnt stone

Nerves Wrenched, Falling Apart. [prod. by miseryprism]

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